Lord Morris of Aberavon
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Asylum Seekers: Mental Health
Lord Morris of Aberavon Excerpts(9 years, 6 months ago)
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Lord Bates
The process is genuinely speeding up. We have given a commitment that everybody who applied before 2012 will have their case decided by the end of this calendar year. Seventy per cent of applications are decided within six months, and 35% of those people are given the right to stay, so there is speed in the system. We have recruited extra people to help. As for mental health needs, that is clearly a clinical decision. When someone is registered with a GP and in contact with the NHS, their condition can be assessed.
Lord Morris of Aberavon (Lab)
My Lords, will the Minister answer the noble Baroness who raised a question a few minutes ago?
Lord Bates
Judging by the general murmurings, I think that I may have misheard the noble Baroness. I thought the question was about whether asylum seekers would be able to work if they were doctors, but I gather that it must have been about something else—in which case I apologise, and I will be happy to write and clarify the matter.